Printing booklets

[Chris Eller]

Hello all. My usual printing habits involve your standard double sided
printing on letter size paper, later to be bound. Now, I'm going to
have to get into printing into a booklet format. I know there isn't a
way to get Frame nor Acrobat to print in a booklet format. for example,
4 pages in one tabloid sized paper: 4|1:2|3, etc. I seem to remember
someone mentioning software that will take Frame or PDF files and
arrange the pages to print 2 up on Tabloid so we get the booklet
effect. Can anyone point me in the right direction??

Thanx in advance for any help!!

Chris

[Tim Murray]

One is "Imposition" but it's very expensive. One other is called Quite Imposing, from www.quite.com. Two versions, regular for 200 UK pounds, Plus for 390 UK pounds.

If you don't get more info here, try the Adobe forum (www.adobe.com/support) and ask about imposition software (that's what it's called).

[vhdl]

On UNIX:

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[Mark Emson]

Hello to you all,

I asked the same question only a few weeks ago and you are correct.
Surprisingly, FM can't handle imposition.

However following some advice from other readers I have since found a piece
of software called "ClickBook 2000"
ClickBook is esentially a fancy printer driver. You have the ability to pump
output to it from virtually any DTP/ WP/Graphics package.
It gives lots of pre-formated options and lets you create your own. You can
print out to double sided, fanfold, quadpage etc,etc.

If you want to give it a try, download the demo from www.bluesquirrel.com It
is fully functioning except for a "spoiler" that marks your pages to prevent
publication. Best of all if you want to buy it, it is only about $50 for the
PC and $70 for the Mac.

Good Luck

Emo.

[Richard Higgins]

For Windows based work, look at Fineprint
http://www.fineprint.com
This worked for me printing an A5 booklet onto A4 paper.
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[Andreas Berghauer]

Simila questions arise quarterly :-).

There's the psutils set, one of them is psbook, that resorts ps file
pages.
It's free. Search THE net or deja.com or drop me a line:
Andreas....@rsdc-rohde-schwarz.com (I don't have it here).

Andreas

Chris Eller schrieb:

[Bryan Guignard]

Chris Eller wrote:
>
> Hello all. My usual printing habits involve your standard double sided
> printing on letter size paper, later to be bound. Now, I'm going to
> have to get into printing into a booklet format. I know there isn't a
> way to get Frame nor Acrobat to print in a booklet format. for example,
> 4 pages in one tabloid sized paper: 4|1:2|3, etc. I seem to remember
> someone mentioning software that will take Frame or PDF files and
> arrange the pages to print 2 up on Tabloid so we get the booklet
> effect. Can anyone point me in the right direction??
>
> Thanx in advance for any help!!
>
> Chris

Since you mentioned PDF in your note, I'll mention my PDF trick for doing
imposition.
Open a blank PDF page in Acrobat (big enough for your imposition), and with the
Forms tool, simply lay out button icon form fields to match the imposition
layout you need, and import the appropriate PDF page into each button field as
the button face attribute (just be sure to set the icon scaling properly). Once
your page is laid out this way, just print it from Acrobat.

On Windows, PDF button icons always print reliably for me. If you are planning
to do this a lot you can automate the whole process with a few lines of
javascript, templates and FDF.

The first objection I always get to this approach is, "you can't rotate the
pages 180 degrees as is required for many imposition layouts". With Acrobat 4
you can do this with the rotate pages command. Just rotate your imposition page
before creating a field(s) that needs to be upside down, create the field, then
rotate the page right side up again. You can also create such a PDF imposition
page with Frame's PS code option and PDFMarks (if you care to get your hands
dirty with code).

Another way is to do it with transparent overlaid templates, but it's a bit
weird to set up due to PDF's unusual page coordinate system, plus it requires
that you create all your regular pages on imposition size paper. The only
advantage to this approach is that it would print in cases where you would have
trouble with button icons (which has never been the case for me).

Hope this helps.

Bryan Guignard
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